F.A.Q.
- What is SpamGang?
- How is SpamGang different than some other web email, like Yahoo or Hotmail?
- Why is this good?
- Doesn't this open a situation where SpamGang might get LOTS of email that no one cares about?
- If I don't "sign up", then how do I create an account?
- Um... how do I get the email then?
- Err... what's the password to get the email
- Um... if there is no password, can't someone else get my email?
- This sounds pretty insecure, what if I want to send important emails with sensitive super-secret information in them to SpamGang?
- What if I want my emails to stay in my box longer than a few hours?
- Are there any limitations on email address names?
- What is SpamGang's official privacy policy?
- So if the government issued a subpeona to SpamGang to divulge emails or logs, you'd rat me out?
Yes
SpamGang is a different kind of email service. The biggest difference is that you don't need to sign up. Any email name you can think of already exists at SpamGang.com. Want BrianTheSkunk@SpamGang.com? You got it. Want to be JamesKoo? ScaryGavyn? GraysonTheMason? No problem. They exist when you create them and they are just waiting for you to check your inbox. SpamGang is fundamentally quite different from other services. Other services like Gmail or Yahoo allow you to actually send email. You cannot send email from SpamGang. You cannot delete email. After a few hours, all email is auto-deleted. A SpamGang email inbox can be read by anyone. There is no real security here. SpamGang has strict rules about what kind of email it receives. Plain text is best, html is filtered. Images, attachments, and fancy stuff are simply stripped away. The upside is that SpamGang requires no sign-up. Send email to a name, and the account is created automagically. In a nutshell, other services provide more functionality but require a sign-up (which takes time, even if you falsify all the information anyway). SpamGang provides less, but requires no sign-up. In our internet world, you often need an email address NOW. Signing up for an email service takes time. That's probably ok for most emailing, but every now and then you need a quick email address for just a single email. After that you don't care what happens to it. Given that such an email address is ready in an instant, you can avoid giving out your real email address when you are afraid of getting spammed. Instead, make up any address @SpamGang.com on the spot and go check it later. Yup - SpamGang gets many emails per day. Its important you know that any email that gets sent to SpamGang will only last about a day or less. After that time, it will be auto-deleted. You don't. SpamGang creates an email account as soon as email arrives for it. All you or anyone else needs to do is send email to the name you thought up and - Kazam! - it will be there waiting for you. Visit SpamGang.com and type in the email name where is says "Check your inbox!", then click "Go!", and SpamGang will display the list of email waiting. There's no password. The email name itself is the only key you need to get in. Yup. For this reason, you might want to pick an unusual name. You can pick bob@SpamGang.com if you want, but maybe you'd be better off with boohabunny@SpamGang.com - except for now that we've mentioned that name in the FAQ everyone will know about it. So try tugboatcaptain@SpamGang.com ... oops! In any case, its perfectly possible for anyone to see an email if they know the name Note that there are something like (rough approximate) 830 trillion trillion trillion different SpamGang email addresses. You really do have some latitude to pick a unique one. Then you are a stupid-head. That isn't what this is for. First of all.. it isn't "your" box. It's anyone's box. Just because you pick a name doesn't mean a whole lot. You and anyone else can use it at the same time. Secondly, if you want your email to stick around longer than a few hours then you need a normal email service, not SpamGang. Check yahoo or gmail or something. The name you pick must form a proper email address or the email will never even get as far as SpamGang. This means that if you try to use bob@bob@bob@SpamGang.com, or anything else that breaks email name rules, the RFC Monster (a close relative of the Bandersnatch) will eat your email before we ever see it. The official policy is something like: At SpamGang, THERE IS NONE. Expect that any email you send or have sent here can and will be viewed by anyone. SpamGang/ManyBrain does not ask for or require any of your personal information. Simply put, anyone can read anyone else's email here. By design, there is simply no way to insure only you have access to any given email. Privacy is a serious issue, and we want to be clear. We think SpamGang can provide pretty decent privacy, but we can't and don't promise it. A promise like that would require lawyers, money, and probably guns - and we don't have any of those. |